Gessner Solomon (60 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 2nd Edition. Stated 2nd edition. Printed at the Albion Press. lii, 132pp, with tissued-guarded, engraved frontispiece, extra illustrated title page, and three further engravings. Full calf's leather binding with red leather onlay labels front and rear, red leather title lab…

Condition: Good. a new edition. Full calf, G. xxviii+187pp, portrait frontis, 4 engraved plates, leather rather worn along the edges & having a rather tired appearance, lettering piece mostly missing, fore edge thumbed, internally a nice copy. Large elephantine bookplate of E R Sawer on the pastedown. French edition of an idylic…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, bound in full leather, 6 by 3 1/2 inches, 143 pages. Printed and sold by Henry Fenwick, twenty-eighth edition, published about 1779. In better than typical condition, covers have light to moderate wear, about 1/4 inch missing from the top of the spine. Hinges are tight, contents have light…

Condition: Good. 1805. No edition remarks. 263 pages. Fully bound brown leather with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have heavy…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Original paper covered boards worn and marked, missing spine, small heraldic plate to front paste-down, two engravings by A W Warren with small contemporary ink name and date to one corner, gatherings loosening, many pages unopened, good. Collection of four works loosely grouped around nature and the…

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a collection of 16 idyllic poems that celebrate the beauty and simplicity of nature. Written by the French author Jacques Delille, renowned for his pastoral poetry, these poems are grounded in the classical literary style. Each idyllic poem is a vignette of country life, c…

One of many translated and illustrated editions (first published in German in 1758). 12mo. 295, (1, table), (4, publisher's catalogue) pp. Eight engraved plates. Gessner (1730-1788) was "the most successful and typical representative of a rococo movement. His pastorals were translated into 20 languages" (Britannica online). Cont…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No Jacket. Additional engraved title and 7 engraved plates; viii+lii+416pp. 8vo contemp. half calf, spine gilt with black leather spine label, slight wear on extremities, Mary Collyer's translation of Salomon Gessner's 'Der Tod Abels' was first published in 1761. This Biblical story proved most p…

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. Traduit de l'Allemand de M. Gessner par M. Huber. xxiv,234[2]pp. A fictionalized story of Cain and Abel, in verse, first published in 1758. Salomon Gessner (1730-1788) was a Swiss poet, artist, and administrator. A lovely little book in speckled cal…

XXII/119 pp. with engraved frontispiece and title vignette, slightly rubbed, else very good and clean, text in English, with this handwritten text in ink on paste down: "John Newton died Sunday eveng 17. September 1826 aged 27.", followed by this poem: "Consult lifes silent clock, thy bounding vein, Seems it to say Health here h…